The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 25, 1927, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH BEARDSLEY HAS OPPOSITION IN JEWELERS’ UNION: Progressives Have Tick- et in Election The progres: group of the In- ternational Jewelry Workers’ union, Local 1, have nominated candidates | and adopted a program for the com-! ing election in the local. 1 The election is now many weeks} overdue and is con gz to be post-| poned by Samuel sley and his} henchmen, | | The program of the progressives | | H i i i j reads in part as follows: * “We are about to have elections in} Local 1, I) Ji W:.U. Now is the} time for each and everyone of us to| consider the activities of the local|taining thousands this week at the {Guild Theatre on West 52nd Street. | “Beardsley, Williams, Smith & Co.'It is a regular Theatre Guild produc- have ruled. the local for seven years |tion and is playing a week’s engage- in| ment for the benefit of The DAILY | WORKER. trade are growing worse from day | are urged to purchase seats in ad- swelry workers are be- }vance at The DAILY WORKER’S ing oppressed aid exploited more and | Office, 108 East 14th Street. during the last 9 months, without making * any building a union, progress Conditions in the to day, The more, “Most of the men realize that a union is the solution of their econ-| omie problems, but they have no faith | or confidence in the present leader-| ship of the local. A sincere militant) leadership that would make a real| earnest attempt to organize this. tactics critics, they apply against They are getting desperate | because the progressives are winning | Journeymen’s Stone Cutters Associa- the confidence of the membership, on! rion was a witness. the issues of real rank and file par-| conditions in. the stone industry in| The adminis-' Long Island, Brooklyn and Scarsdale, tration has shown its incapability to| Cronin replied that to his knowledge grasp a favorable opportunity to fol-| most of the stone delivered in those | places came fro i ticipation in the work, low-up organization drives. Membership Activity Blocked. | “Undoubtedly, the administration | fears that their leadership will be || at stake if they permit the proposals | of the progressives, for the building | of the union, to be actually put into | } effect. They, therefore, use any and | \ every means to prevent he member- | jf ship from doing systematic work | knowing that the progressives will be | in the forefront anj thereby gain the | confidence of the jewelry workers. | “Right after the last elections, the! progressives fought for the organiza-| | tion and admission into Lecal 1 of | the watch-case makers, who still! work 48 hours a week and are the worst exploited of our trade. i “Beardsley, Williams, Smith & Co.| opposed their admission into Local 1,! and wanted them to go into the dead | i Local No. 49 instead. We, the pro-! gressives, forced the issue until final-| ly the watch-case makers were ad-, Z mitted and the drive was begun, Ac- ‘Stone Cutters’ Union the |the Decorative Stone Company against | jewelers could rally the men to the! members of the Stone Cutters Union union standard, But Beardsley and | for alleged interference with the de- his clique are not capable of doing | livery of stone coming from non-union They are more capable of de-| plants was continued before Federal moralizing our ranks by the unfair| Judge Thatcher in the Woolworth their | Building here yesterday. Page Five “Socialist” Manager Shiplacoff Combines N. Y. HUNGARIANS | : With Bosses To Keep Workers FIGHT SPREAD OF Under His Heel HORTHYISH HERE Bh cane ot | 7 ‘ . jeome back to work. The whole sec- Concert at Carnegie Is tion rejected this offer. Slated for Sunday The same morning all the 24 oper- ators held a meeting in the office| Hungarians of New York have or- of the union, After much mangling | ganized for a war against the spread with the officials who did their best|of the Horthy white terror in the to provodate a fight, it was agreed| United States. | upon that Engel goes back to work} Exposing the plot of reactionary] together with the rest on condition| Hungarians in this city to bring fifty | that he pays’ $5 and appeals his case) members of the Horthy parliament on Wednesday. here under the guise of erecting a But here is where the treachery Kossuth monument, liberal Hungar- | lies. When the whole. section came|idns have organized an anti-Horthy| back to work with the permission of | league. | the office, the employer, who only a _ Horthy Ruse, | while ago promised them that he will) “Reactionary Hungarians hope to carry out the instructions of the capture our organization here just as | stein Brothers at 19th street and 6th | union, refused to take them back. | the fascists captured Italian organi- avenue was notified by his chairman | " zations several years ago”, said Hugo} | that he must pay up his fine. Engel} Fie ob creo Cop ang Gellert, well-known artist who is one | answered his chairman to the effect’ retate this fact. _When Shiplacoff of the founders of the league. “If that he is not guilty of any crime P * : P Horthy wishes to erect a monument 4 ‘4 2 . and his gang felt that they could not sage J i reed against the union. He claimed that openly withstand the determination to Kossuth . he declared, Let him} | the union has no right to tell him of these 24 workers as well as the | erect one in Budapest. There is no} where to go or where not to go after! ;_,. ‘ |monument to Kossuth there, and as working hours, On this ground he pisse ibe Peas rear. cee far as I know Horthy has no inten- fatty vefaesa<4 mete & trade in general, the former made a Hak GP osectts “ SIny Seeeee Se Pay tee sine, retreat. But in an underhand man-|"0P °F Crecting one. | Ordered To Stop Work. ‘ae , ‘ Thousands of Hungarians are ex- When the chairman notified the |}. corals jee egal prea ected to attend the first th union office of Engel’s fetta th sine workers, to get their revenge. |% gaa at Cae] es bay Shiplacoff’s next move was even }the fine he was ordered to stop him} |trom working. Engel vitised and | more theagherous. ‘When the Works |continued working. | ers plainly told him that they knew The boss then interfered and dis. | his seme; he finally made up a letter | charged Engel claiming that he was | the firm sdking the samme #4 take | Cantor instructed to do so by the union. them back temporarily, pending the | Hetrio, Engel did not budge from his ma-| decision of the impartial chairman. jchine. When the work was finally} Treacherous Wording. jella Neu, violinist will be some of the taken away from him a commotion} But the wording of the letter was | headliners at the affair. | followed and the entire operators’ | such that it placed the responsibility} A large number of actors of the} | section consisting of 24 workers|of this stoppage upon the workers,|New Playwright’s Theatre will also purposely aimed | be on the program. Agnes Lumbard By B, ANNISON, Abraham Shiplacoff and the Ossip | Wilinsky clique of the Pocketbook Workers’ Union, are now having | | their hands full in trying to suppress | the rebellious spirit of the member-/| \ship against thé corrupt machine. As already’ reported last week in 'The DAILY WORKER, about eleven’! active workers were fined some $25 jeach and some $50, because they to- jgether with hundreds of others, at- | tended the meetings arranged by the cloakmakers’ and furriers’ Joint Boards. Refuses To Pay. Last Monday one operator, by the |name of A, Engel, working for Bern- His comedy, “Pygmalion” is enter- Those who wish to see it Being Sued Here by A Stone Manufacturer Trial of the civil action brought by |eoncert given by the league at Car-/ negie Halil, Sunday at 8, at which a hoat of prominent musicians, sing-} ers, dancers and actors will appear. | Rosenblatt To Sing, Josef Rosenblatt; Orkha violinist; David Barnett, |pianist; Ferenc Zsolt, baritone; Giz- | John Cronin, business agent for the }stopped. Every, one, however, re-| With this Shiplaco Asked regarding PLUMBER STRIKE The Manager's Corner INDIVIDUAL VS. GROUP JOURNALISM. Fists flew freely ina fierce quarrel between J. T. Ruland, editor and publisher of The Observer of Northport, L. I., and J. Alden Brett, editor of The Journal of the same city. It seems that Mr. Brett met Mr. Ruland in the local post office, called him a “yellow dog” and punched him in the eye. This was in reply to an editorial in The Observer denouncing Mr. Brett in the following terms: “The vituperation of our gifted defamer reminds us of the dying hiss of a deadly serpent.” This quarrel is a relic of the period of individual jovriual- ism, when newspapers were largely the expression of some dominant individual like Horace Greeley and the like. The newspapers of today have lost this characteristic. They ave largely owned and controlled by powérful corporations like the Scripps-Howard Syndicate, Press Publishing Company, New York Times Publishing Company, Hearst's, etc. These corporations are definitely group-supported and group-con- trolled. By maintaining control of a chain of these news- paper syndicates covering the entire country, the capitalist class is enabled to control practically the entire publicity machinery of the United States. The DAILY WORKER, the uational labor daily, must also be group-supported and group-controlled. It must be controlled and supported by those whom it serves, the work- ers. For this reason the Ruthenberg DAILY WORKERS taining Fund is, in every sense of the word, a logical and nec- essary step in building our paper. In this spirit it is being eagerly carried: forward by workers throughout the country. —BERT MILLER. LB~ : Dostoyevski’s “Idiot” For Pioneer Benefit Jewish workers of New York will } ON APRIL | T , have an opportunity to see a great drama and at the s: me help to establish a mp fer permanent workers’ children. The is a dramatization of Dostoye ‘Ss mas- terpiece, the “Idiot.” It is adapted is BER by the well known ector Jacob For Wage Increase and Ben-Ami who i J ng a The “Idiot” an out- | leading role. creation of | mained sitting at their machine. Immediately the boss got on the | job to persuade individual workers to | resume their work. This attempt | was fruitless, | Boss Loyal. |. Then the shop chairman told the |} boss to discharge the whole section, |claiming that he has such orders from the union. Here again the boss |showed his “loyalty” to Shiplacoff {and carried out the instructions of the union clique. After these 24 operators had been told that they are discharged they still remained at the machines, despite the fact that they were threatened with the police. At 4:30 the workers left the shop. 3 On the following morning a com- |mittee of the section went up to see |the firm about the matter. Upon this occasion the employers stated that he is willing to withdraw his lants. NEARING 4 Saturday afternoon lectures at 2 P.M. Beginning this Saturday Post-War Europe and MARCH 26—Germany the | . Dawes Plan. APRIL 2—France and the Franc. APRIL 9—Italy under Mussolini. APRIL 16—The Soviet Union. Forty-Heur Week By Federated Press. Plumbers’ helpers organized in the American Association of Plumbers’ Helpers of Brooklyn have voted to strike with the plumbers of Local 1 if they walk out April 1. The plum- local agreement expires on | to. make the case unfavorable to the|and Romney Brent will appear in a | workers with the impartial chairman. | sofig and dance from “Loud Speaker’, } The workers naturally refused to|by John Howard Lawson. Another! |take the responsibility upon them-|interesting feature will be the ap- | selves. : |Pearance of the sextette from Em Jo | Here again Shiplacoff was pushed|Bashs, “Earth” which is now at the |to the wall and was forced to change |New Playwright’s Theatre. {the wording. { asks ieee, ] Boss Betrays Deal, | | When the shop chairman finally | . handed the letter over -to the boss; Cast Tonight for Play | | the latter insisted upon the “original | | wording”. In this way it was dis-| The cast for the production of covered that Shiplacoff negotiated |““The Machine Wreckers,” by Ernest {with the firm and the chief clerk of| Toller will be chosen at tonight’s he association the contents of the| Meeting of the Worker’s Drama joriginal wording of the letter. In) League, 64 Washington Sq. this incident Shiplacoff has proven} Arrangements will also be made at himself a contemptible double-cross- | this time for forthcoming rehearsals. er. The workers of the trade are|it is also announced that those who | {highly enraged against Shiplacoff’s|#@V¢ little time at their disposal are |under-handed dealings and are deter-|!"Vited to participate in the mass |mined to puta stop to this kind of See, which will be rehearsed once ‘treachery. ja week only, on Friday. Drama League to Pick |x strike vote. egotiations to date have failed to bring agreement on the plumbers’ de- ands for $14 #12; daily wage instead of 40-hour work week instead of employers to supply tools; and i f helpers—one ead of one for one. are called to a mass meet~- , 182 Claremont Ave., March 25, at 8 proposed de- {mands. The executive board of the association has been empowered to Workers School 108 East 14th Street. the Fee for series $1.25. (Continued from Page One) GARMENT BOSSES GET INJUNCTION mands. [Brooklyn Comrades To| ‘Dance Tomorrow Night | he American Association, according to Clarence Miller, president of the union. The organization has been jh Sub-Section 6 B of the Workers rights that, the workers had 31 and the local has taken a) for two} work out the organization’s first de- | About 1200 helpers are enrolled in | anding Dostoyevsky’ eat pen, and the first performance, which will be tomorro ‘riday) will be given for the bene of the “Young Pioncer Camp.” Read The Daily Worker Every Day Telephone Dry Dock 9069. + Meet me at the Public Art t Dairy Restaurant | and Vegetarian 75 SECOND AVE. | Opposite Publi YEW YORK Theatre | MEETING HALLS “LYCRUM ue New iways } feter H York, N. ¥. | ! i Tel. Dry Dock 8306, 1. KITZIs, Pro 8045, long| Party wil hold an entertainment and campaigning for members only three tive members of the East Side were organized into a zone committee just | before mass-meeting .of the] watch-case makers, sured a successful meeting. The sec-! ond zone meeting drew more live ele-| ments into activity. But the minute’ Beardsley & Co, saw that the pro- were taking the lead in that committee, they never called the; East Side zone committee again.” | progressive candidates are: Sam Nesin for organizer;” Charles | Schwartz for president and Abe Ru- | bin for vice-president. gressives The » the for ‘One This move in-| Featuring JACOB a i | H and a Afternoon, 30c. First St. and Second Ave. Continuous. ......-. ++ Added Attraction Russian Balalaika Orchestra |} Two-reel Comedy. Day “MICHAEL STROGOFF” P. ADLER TOMORROW “LENIN” From 1 till “THE IDIOT” ; staged in Yiddish under Feodor Dostoyevsky’s great masterpiece direction of acob Ben-Ami “y MARCH 25th Entire Benefit for the (A Camp for Workers’ Children) To-night, Friday Irving Place Art Theatre UNG PIONEER CAJIIP” TICKETS on Sale at Camp Office, 108 E. 14th Street, Room 3i, and at box office on Friday irom 6 P. M, On. with this appointee of Sigman is supposed | struggled for. to be a representative of the workers, | \he is the first to go to the assistance | jy of ie employers, and at the behest ‘of Sigman, help them to obtain an/ fcr hi i j injunction against the workers.” ih oe Naty scene tits There are also a npmber of other! famous injunction just as it has al- affidavits signed by Italian men and| ways fought that weapon of the em- women who signed some for Antonini, | ployers, and as it is fighting the i: |, Among the latter, there is an amus-|junctions secured by Antonini, Sig- 11}}| ing angle in the fact that S. Amicco,|man’s henchman in Local 89.” || against whom vague charges of “as- Many Named By Court. | sault” are made, had on a number.of| ‘Those named in the present court | occasions spent friendly evenings, ;, A A | order are Louis Hyman, ig with them at dinner. pies, Generel an sci . OM _ jager of the Joint Board of the Cloak Application to miake this injunction and Dressmakers’ Union; Charles S. | asked by the right wing leaders and | Zimmerman, Isadore Weisberg, Jul-| |the bosses’ association permanent jus Portnoy, Joseph Boruchowitz, S. will be considered next Monday by| Farber, M. Stoll, A. Grossman, Rose | Justice Edward Glennon in the state |Prepstein, Joseph Goretzky, Philip {supreme court. Antonini’s injunction, Kravetz, Peter Rothenberg, Fannie} against officers of the Joint Board | Golos, Bella Ratford, H. Koretz, A.| will also be argued on that date, un- | Gratfi, S. Miller, A, "Watnielvarh L} less postponed. It has not yet been | Kupernitzky, PD "Jay; Joseph Smith, | ;made permanent, ¥ | Adolf Heit, Isaac Silver, Charles } Hyma® Scores Injunction. |Klein, Rose Medoff, Jennie Blinder, Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint | Jack Horowitz, Anna Garesh, and! Board, further linked up the Interna-| Hyman Alpern, | ‘tional with the obtaining of the in- | junction in commenting upon it. | “According to information that we |have received in the Joint Board, agents of the International have been going around to the shops to obtain the affidavits that the Association of Dress Manufacturers needed for its injunction,” he said. “The close con- nection between Sigman and this em- ployers’ association was clear enough at the time Sigman signed away eleven points in the dress agreement he made with them, including some THE ASTORIA — Pulatial Ballrooms & I = Rooms | CATERING A 8! ALTY H 62-04 B, 4th St. New York Oits, | jmonths. It aims to secure a charter from the American Federation of La- hor and has asked aid of Loca] 1 of plumbers as well as of the internatio- nal union. Helpe ’ 8: day and are requ vil . \dance tomorrow night at the Williams- “Desiring to take out another in-|burg Workers Center, 29 Graham Ave., inction against the workers, he has|corner Cook St. An elaborate pr alled upon the employers to do it! gram has been arranged, and every- hody is urged to come early so as not to be: turned away during the late hour. | GRAND OPENING | H THE INPRISONED CLOAKMAKERS & FUR THE GREAT RUSSIAN FILM ‘BREAKING CHAINS’ will be shown Sunday, Mar. 27 STAR CASINO 107th St. & Park Avenue Proceeds: For Relief and De- i fense of Cloakmakers & Furriers 4 Showings: 1:30 p. m. to 12 m, Continuous Admission: At the Door 75 cents. In Advance 50 cents. Tickets in advance at the, following places: Defense Office, 41 Union Square, Room 714. Tel. Stuy.°9280. Joint Board, 180 E. 25th St. Furriers’ Union, 22 E, 22nd St. (Dues Window.) RI RUBIN’ Furniture House |] i385 Third Avenue Between 78th and. 79th Sts. A complete line of i] Furniture, Beds and Bedding. i} OUT OF THE HIGH RENT DISTRICT. Our prices suit your pockets—Our profit is very nominal.—We cater to the working class.— i] We treat the workers | Yonkers Young Worker Dance Saturday Night Plans’ have been completed for the dance and entertainment of the Young Workers’ League of Yonkers, at the Labor Lyceum, 20 Warburton Ave., on Saturday evening. square—Come and be convinced, | Come to our opening sale } and be convinced. “Aid ‘Their Families! BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS Paeebeeeeeeeeeeeeeess sages Annual Concert-Ball + of the Relief Association for Tubercular Children in U. S. S. R. on SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 1927 at PARK PALACE, 110th Street and 5th Avenue. An excellent musical program is offered by well-known artists: Nadia A. Reisenberg, Piano Anna Lissetzkaya, Soprano Ivan Velikanoff, Tenor Mink Gs ae Weel (of the Soprano Ato - International Workers’ ‘Aid, 799 Broadwa » New Yor! bobs ee ede cde cee ode cee a cede ate ce ec ec 36 TOMORROW NIGHT, MARCH 26 DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT given by BRONX SECTION YOUNG WORKERS’ LEAGUE “1347 Boston Road, Bronx EXCEPTIONAL PROGRAM. SNAPPY BgND. Tel. Orchard 3783 Strictly by Appointment DR. L. KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST 48-80 DELANCEY STREET Cor. Eldridge St. New York bet } Tel. Lehigh ¢022. Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURG DENTIST | Office Hours: 9:30-12 A. M, 2-8 P.M. | Daily Exeept Friday and Sunday, | 249 BAST 1lbth STREET | Cor. Second Ave. New York. i be 8 ates Theatre an studio. And Others. An Excellent Orchestra Will Furnish Music for Dancing. OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS. LELLLEEEEEEE EE EES FEFEFEEPES Dr. J, Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Stuyv. 10119 | ADMISSION 50c. WE INVITE ALL YOUNG WORKERS. PEER PEPER EE EEE EE DED EE PERE \ Mi TICKETS at $1 to be had from: Mrs, O. Kalantar, 470 Audubon Ave., Phone Billings 3566, and trom Mrs. T, Broehes, 112 W. 119th St., Phone University 3622, and at the Box Office on the day of the concert, KEEP E EERE EEE EEE PEPE EEE EER FEEPPEEFEFEFEFES PEEELE EEE eee EEEEEEF a